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Customer Servisz
Ok, I should start by saying Hungarians aren’t unfriendly. I’ve seen politeness between total strangers just because they sat next to each other at a café. But man you can get some spectacular …
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Spaghetti in a Kettle
Unfamiliarity breeds mistakes. This was brought home to me in my first week in my Budapest flat. I mean first of all I managed to cut my finger using the washing machine. Yep, …
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Me go shop
I’m struck by how easy it is not to speak the language in a foreign country. You can pretty much live somewhere, anywhere, and get by with a couple of words, a bit …
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Luton Schoolport
Luton airport just doesn’t feel like an airport. It feels more like a bunch of aeroplanes that decided one day to land at a school and pretend to be in an airport. This …
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Sliding doors
It’s a funny thing living it two cities, one week here, the next week there. As I walk to work in London I think ‘was I really living Budapest last week?’ and vice …